Photo Album

This is a mini photo album I made for the girls who attended my daughter's 10th birthday sleepover. I took a bunch a pictures at the party and made copies for all the girls. I bought one of those vinyl photo albums at Walmart and slid out the covers they came with and made my own. Each girl will get one of these with their "Thank You" card from my daughter. I also included a page after the pictures that has each girl's name along with their phone numbers so they can all keep in touch (since they don't all go to school together). Of course I decorated that page, too, to coordinate with the cover!! Hope they all like them!! Thanks for looking:-)

Holiday Mini Swap

This is a card I made for a swap I am participating in for the new Holiday mini catalog. The stamp set is called Love & Joy. I also used some of the beautiful new designer paper. There are so many neat new products to choose from!! Not only brand new stamp sets and wheels, but also wrapping paper ( I LOVE the Blizzard paper!), ribbon, gold and silver elastic cording, On Board Accents (chipboard) and embellishments! If you don't have a copy of the mini, contact me and I'll get you one or check on-line on September 1st here to view all the fun new items. The products in this mini catalog will only be available from September 1st, 2007 thru November 30, 2007.

Doggone Cute!

I LOOOOOOOVE this dog made from the Pick A Petal stamp set!! I saw him on a swap card at a meeting I attended today. I took a picture of the swap and had to come home and use him on this card. My kids are going to a 5-year-old boy's birthday party tomorrow and thought this would be perfect! I have a feeling I'm going to be making him a lot - he's so doggone cute and easy to whip up! Hope you like him, too:-)

Thankssss!

This is a quick and simple "Thank You" I made for my daughter's birthday. She loves snakes and she loves purple! The punched out flowers are from the bouquet flower punch and I doubled them with a white one underneath so I could put some glue and dazzling diamonds in the center for some BLING! Can't really see it in the photo. Added some white gel pen dots in the center of the flowers along the bottom to make them pop out a little more. Off to make a bunch of copies so she can write them out tomorrow!!

Happy 10th Birthday!

My daughter celebrated her 10th birthday today. Actually, she's been celebrating for several days and I'm exhausted!! Slumber party, movies, dinner out, presents, etc. I was so pooped last night that I didn't have much creativity flowing through my veins. This card uses a layout that I use frequently. Quick and simple. I do love this stamp set (All through the Year) with the matching wheel. I chose the colors to coordinate with the wrapping paper on her packages. Now I need a day or two to recuperate! Thank goodness school starts next week:-) Thanks for looking!!!!!

Slumber Party Project

My daughter is having a sleepover tomorrow night for her 10th birthday. One of the projects we will be doing is this composition book with a matching pen. It uses the Cutie Pie designer series paper from Stampin' Up!. That is my favorite paper!!!! Pretty easy project for the girls - hopefully they will like it:-) Thanks for looking!!!!

Luggage Tags

We made these luggage tags at my stamp class the other night. Everyone loved them! I really love the colors - groovy guava and bayou blue. I think they are soooo sharp together! The stamp set - Wanted - I received free at convention and didn't think I'd ever really use it since it's not really my style. However, once I started playing with it and found out the scallop punch works perfectly with the large flower image - I've found it has LOTS of potential:-) The plastic name badge holders I picked up a Walmart, believe it or not. Thanks for looking!

Watercoloring

At Convention, one of the sessions I attended was on watercoloring. I love this look but don't feel I do a very good job of it. I really think practice makes perfect. Anyway, we did some watercoloring with pencils, crayons, inks and chalks and it was so much fun! They all give their own unique look. I am going to do this card at my class on Thursday and demonstrate how to make a pallet of color by scribbling the pencils onto a small piece of watercolor paper and then lifting it off with an aqua painter. Hope the girls enjoy it!!

Pocket Card

My daughter is having a sleepover for her 10th birthday in 1 1/2 weeks. She is sooooo excited and I wanted make an invitation for her that was bright and fun. I tried to make this pocket card kind of look like a sleeping bag. I don't know if I succeeded or not.......but my daughter liked it!! I love, love, love this Cutie Pie designer series paper the best of all of them. In fact, I bought three packages of them!! I just think the colors are so cheerful and will probably do a stamp project with the girls at the slumber party using these papers. I better rest up before the big day because I'm sure I won't get much sleep:-)

BACK FROM CONVENTION!!!

PHEW! What a busy week it's been!!! Got back from Denver on Tuesday night and am now trying to play catch up. Had a great time and learned LOTS of new things:-) One thing is the special for August:
Purchase the Three for You Punch Box for $45.95, and you will receive an exclusive assortment of textured Love Notes for free (a $12.95 value)!!!
You won't find this package of Love Notes anywhere else; they're only available during this promotion. Check out these features and benefits:
* The 3" x 3" folded size makes creating and giving a little note easy-they're just the right size for a quick hello.
* Each package contains 30 pre-scored textured cards with 30 Very Vanilla envelopes so you're ready to create and go!
* With 10 each of Wild Wasabi, Purely Pomegranate, and So Saffron Love Notes, you'll be able to try out two of the new In Color selections-and see how well they coordinate with our color families-at the same time as the Three for You Punch Box!